Today's links The real problem with anonymity: The banal anonymity of evil. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Podcasts, events and more. Latest books: You keep rea … | Continue reading
Today's links The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle: Name your price, get ebooks, back EFF! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Podcasts, events and more. Latest books: Yo … | Continue reading
Today's links Brinkwhump Linkdump: A varied mixture for the weekend. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Brinkwhump Linkdump (permalink) Once again, I find myself arriving at t … | Continue reading
Today's links Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly: If you think the company's profits come from AWS, you've been suckered, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/ … | Continue reading
Today's links Lies, damned lies, and Uber: Uber wants to pay its Toronto drivers $2.50/hour (eh). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading L … | Continue reading
Today's links When private equity destroys your hospital: Looters literally want to kill you. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading … | Continue reading
Today's links Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs real AI harms: And those real AI harms are priming people to believe disinformation. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent … | Continue reading
Today's links Incomplete vs. overshoot: The horseshoe theory is really, really wrong. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading I … | Continue reading
Today's links Vice surrenders: Literally the stupidest publishing strategy I've ever heard of (ever). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, curren … | Continue reading
Today's links Dinkclump Linkdump: A rare, out-of-cycle linkdump. The Bezzle excerpt (Part VI): The thrilling conclusion! This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Dinkclump Linkdump … | Continue reading
Today's links The majority of censorship is self-censorship: …But the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power. The Bezzle excerpt (Part V): Keep your hands at 10 and 2. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2 … | Continue reading
Today's links Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain: A search monopolist should never do a layoff, buyback or dividend for so long as it's enshittifying. The Bezzle excerpt (Part IV): LA Sheriff's Deputies are the most violent gangs in LA. Hey look at this: Delights to delec … | Continue reading
Today's links Pluralistic is four: Reflections on four years of Memex Method, Phase II. The Bezzle excerpt (Part III): In which Steve Soul lawyers up. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcomin … | Continue reading
Today's links Middlemen without enshittification: Not every author can be a DIY author. The Bezzle excerpt (Part II): Let's learn about copyright termination! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcom … | Continue reading
Today's links An excerpt from The Bezzle: A George Clinton/Leonard Cohen-inspired royalty-theft caper. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, … | Continue reading
Today's links How America's oligarchs lull us the be-your-own-boss fairy tale: Temporarily embarrassed millionaires aren't born, they're made. Come see me on tour!: LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, Boston, New York City, Toronto, San … | Continue reading
Today's links How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller": A convincer to prolong the bezzle. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future: My next novel predicts the present. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2013, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing … | Continue reading
Today's links Kelly Link's "Book of Love": A deceptively quirky tale with rusty razors at its core. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cur … | Continue reading
Today's links Big Tech disrupted disruption: We don't have to care, we're the phone company. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current re … | Continue reading
Today's links The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes: Monopoly destroyed America's high-tech capacity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current wri … | Continue reading
Today's links How I got scammed: And why AI will make it worse. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How I got scammed (perm … | Continue reading
Today's links Worker misclassification is a competition issue: Corrupt employers created a market for lemons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pro … | Continue reading
Today's links Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses: A little bit of nonsensewatching for a Wednesday. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearance … | Continue reading
Today's links My McLuhan lecture on enshittification: Live from Berlin. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading My McLuhan lecture on enshi … | Continue reading
Today's links I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine: The Mechanical Turk would like to have a word with all of us. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/rece … | Continue reading
Today's links Solar is a market for (financial) lemons: Our Slow AIs have an alignment problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current readi … | Continue reading
Today's links The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs: "Self-regulation is to regulation as self-importance is to importance." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, c … | Continue reading
Today's links Tabs give me superpowers: Lifehacks are good, actually. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Tabs give me superpower … | Continue reading
Today's links How lock-in hurts design: Felonizing the desire path. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2024 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How lock-in hurts design … | Continue reading
Today's links Dave Maass and Patrick Ley's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis": A graphic novel based on a musical written by inmates at a Nazi death-camp. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publication … | Continue reading
Today's links Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story: 43 years later, Reagan's other shoe drops. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing pro … | Continue reading
Today's links Brinklump Linkdump: Indiscriminate heterogeniety for the sabbath. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Brinklump Linkdump (permalink) Life comes at you fast, … | Continue reading
Today's links 2600's amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification: Remember, hacking is more than just a crime: it's a survival trait. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearan … | Continue reading
Today's links Demon-haunted computers are back, baby: Surely no one will ever find a way to abuse this security system that treats the computer's owner as an attacker. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publicatio … | Continue reading
Today's links The super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The … | Continue reading
Today's links American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, cu … | Continue reading
Today's links Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing project … | Continue reading
Today's links Tech workers and gig workers need each other: Each disenshittifies the other. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current rea … | Continue reading
Today's links The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current wri … | Continue reading
Today's links The real AI automation threat to workers: The robot can't replace you, but it CAN replace your shitty boss. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writi … | Continue reading
Today's links Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues: Another Wil Wheaton banger, necessitated by Amazon's perfidy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearanc … | Continue reading
Today's links Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars": Life in space sucks, is grotesquely expensive, and produces little useful science. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appe … | Continue reading
Today's links Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind": A haunting novel of debt, work, dreams, and the capitalist nightmare. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearan … | Continue reading
Today's links A year in illustration, 2023 edition: I amuse myself, at least. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading A year in illustratio … | Continue reading
Today's links 2024's public domain is a banger: How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading 2024's publ … | Continue reading
Today's links What kind of bubble is AI?: My latest column for Locus Magazine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading What kind of bubble … | Continue reading
Today's links Debbie Urbanski's 'After World': An unflinching, bleak, vivid tale of humanity's final days. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, cu … | Continue reading